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I miss the era of the internet with random games on every website (lemmy.world)
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[–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

What were the ad blocking methods available? I didn't really use the Internet until early 2000s and I can't remember when I started using ad blocking extensions.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    In the 90s? There weren't any. You just had to put up with it.

    Wikipedia says the first Adblocker was released in 1996, but I never heard of it, nor did I know of anyone who was blocking ads back then. I didn't hear people discussing Adblockers until the mid-to-late 2000s, when AdBlock Plus first became popular.

    I used ABP for many years until I learned that they sold out to the ad companies, and thus switched to Ublock Origin sometime in the 2010s. Not to mention that I got tired of having to manually update my ad filters. UBO made adblocking simple with its auto updater.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Yeah I meant the 90s Thanks, your timeline makes sense to me. I wonder if that ad blocker from 96 even did anything. I know they sold software that "doubled your ram" and other impossible things.

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